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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 41 km NW of Abepura, Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.4128S, 140.2792WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Abepura in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/02/19 / 2019-02-04 13:45:43 / February 4, 2019 @ 1:45 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.39 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 140.2792° East, -2.4128° South, depth 15.39 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:45:43 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000jn9g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jn9g.

Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jayapura, Abepura.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 41 km NW of Abepura, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.2792° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.4128° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NW of Abepura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-04 13:45:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-26 17:52:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.436 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000jn9g Id of event.
Event Code 2000jn9g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jn9g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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